Archive for April, 2008
**Volunteers Needed To Help Find Bella** (near Almaden Exp & Branham)
** PLEASE HELP US FIND BELLA…VOLUNTEERS NEEDED** Bella is the Shiba Inu attacked, along w/her owner in her neighborhood, by a pit bull roaming loose on 4/11. See attached SJMN article. We’ve had multiple sighting as recent as 4/26 and need your help to have an all-out search to get the word out and bring her home safely. We need volunteers to help search for Bella on Saturday 5/3 at 10 AM, starting at 3859 Thousand Oaks Dr, San Jose. We will have flyers and maps with the latest sightings to focus on. All volunteers and help is truly appreciated. We know she’s out there and needs your help to find her way back home where she belongs. Please be part of bringing Bella home safe. Thank you, Terri & Steve
stevebelsley@comcast.net
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Blogs of Note
I have added another section (finally!) to the Shibalog – Blogs of Note. If you have a Shiba or dog themed blog and want a link, let me know and I’ll check you out. I will add links at my discretion, so this isn’t an official link exchange. 
We are still looking for Bella
Repost from email:
The Belsleys are still looking for Bella, the Shiba, in the San Jose, CA area. Bella went missing on 4/11/08 when she and her owner were attacked by a roaming pit bull. Yesterday, there was a possible sighting of Bella in the general area of an earlier sighting. They are bringing in a scent dog to do area search today of this area .Tomorrow they will meeting at the Belsley’s house at 1:00 p.m. to do another area search with people. They have notified media of the Sunday search.
People interested in supporting the Belsley’s search effort tomorrow (Sunday) should contact them at (remove space):
stevebelsley@ comcast.net
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Search is still on for Sunday at 1pm at our house. Making more fliers and posters today, along w/searching. Left message w/local stations and paper…if you have time to call, please do, as I think the more people they here from the better chance they’ll cover.
Had a possible sighting last night near Lincoln Ave. and Coe….about 1 mile from last sighting and 5 mile from our house. Search dog coming this afternoon to check for scent, so we can increase searching in that area tomorrow with the help of more people. Any help in passing the info on via internet etc. is appreciated. I am encouraged by last evening’s sighting, we were out late looking and my husband went back this a.m. Hoping she will return to that area. Thanks again for helping to bring Bella home safe.
Oookay…
Shiba Brand… garbage bags
Their motto appears to be “Free Journey in Imagination”. Well, it’s admittedly true that many Shibas are extremely imaginative as to what they could eat and later shit out onto an expensive floor or vomit onto a pair of $200 Adidas. However, I am not the first person to advertise the Shiba as a prime candidate for filling these garbage bags via the strategically placed “X”.
Still hunters in their native land
I came across this blog entry containing a photo of Japanese wild boar hunters and their dogs. Two of the dogs look like Shibas. It’s interesting to note that they are still used for hunting, especially wild boar, which is a tough opponent even for larger hunting dogs like Catahoulas and the American hounds.
Bella still missing
$$1000-Reward$$ – Lost Shiba Inu – dogs – looks like a black fox (near Branham & Almaden Exp, San Jose)
Reply to: stevebelsley@comcast.net
Date: 2008-04-20, 8:24AM PDT
Lost female Shiba Inu dog, black with tan color, small to medium size, 251bs, curly tail, pointed ears, looks like a black fox, may be injured. Name is Bella. Lost Friday night, 4/11. Last spotted running down Edenbury Ln and and recently near Willow Glen HS. Could be anywhere in the greater south San Jose area or surrounding communities. $$ 1000 Reward $$ offered. 408-891-4239 any time, day or night. View SJ Mercury News article for additional info:
http://www.mercurynews.com//ci_8917541?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
Thanks to Gail for letting me know about this.
No Next Day Pets
Speaking of selling, as I referenced in the 100th post of the Shibalog, you may notice that the ad for NextDayPets is gone from the Google ads that I have posted on the right.
I’m not a big fan of any website whose domain name basically encourages the buy-on-impulse-neglect-at-leisure attitude. “NextDayPets” is not something that I want to imply is just fine.
Furthermore, I’m not a supporter of a system that treats animals like anything else that you can buy on E-Bay, with a puppy paypal system:
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I don’t like it. I think that a pet purchase should be carefully thought out, not something you do on impulse, based on the picture of a cute puppy and an information line that looks like it was excerpted from an emo MSN conversation: OMG! These puppys R soooo cute! U should buy 1 cuz there gonna go kwik!!! LOLWTFBBQ!
Thank you, no. I don’t need revenue from those kinds of referrals.
I was going to sell my soul on this post, but…
this is the 100th post! Yay, us!
New Shiba Rescue site!
Today, I got a new e-mail.
I’ve got to thank Aimee, because she inadvertently gave me an e-kick to the ass to update TMS already. Nothing major; just updating the information about Shassi (she’s now #10 on the unofficial Shiba Inu Veteran top 50) and improving parts of the site. I want to make it into a bigger site than it is, maybe breaking up the information into several pages. Eventually. Some day.
One idea that I will need more knowledge for, but I think would be cool is an application on the site that automatically rotates pictures and information about rescue Shibas and/or Shiba alerts, like lost dogs or Shibas who have come upon misfortune. I’ll see; I need to know a LOT more information about web applications as well as incorporate an easy to use interface where rescuers could post pictures and information about their dogs.
But, back to the e-mail. If you’re a Shiba person in SIRA’s area (some volunteers are pretty far away from the base, so people outside the Chicago/Illinois area may still be able to help/volunteer/adopt through them), check them out. And thanks, Aimee!
Missing Shiba Alert
Dog is missing after pit bull attacks her and her owner
By Joshua Molina
Mercury News
Article Launched: 04/14/2008 01:33:48 AM PDT
For the last three years, Bella, a shiba inu dog with deep brown eyes, pointed ears and a corkscrew tail, slept peacefully every night on her fluffed-up down pillow next to Terri and Steve Belsley.
But Friday night, Bella never came home.
“It is like a surreal nightmare,” Terri Belsley said. “We let this dog become our life. Nothing is going to seem normal until we find Bella and bring her home safe.”
The black and tan dog hasn’t been seen since she was last spotted hobbling away on Edenbury Lane, about a block from Thousand Oaks Drive in San Jose, after an altercation with dog that animal control identified as a pit bull.
The San Jose Police Department responded to the attack and the pit bull was seized by animal control.
The chaos ensued when Steve Belsley was walking Bella as part of the frisky dog’s nightly ritual. The pit bull, said Belsley’s, wife, Terri, charged the two.
When the violent and frightening encounter ended a few seconds later, Steve Belsley had more than a dozen dog bites on his left arm, and a huge gash in his forearm where “the dog practically bit him to the bone,” Terri Belsley said. He also tore a tendon in his hand that will require surgery. He spent several hours at the emergency room at Good Samaritan Hospital.
And Bella has disappeared.
“We don’t know how badly she is injured,” Terri Belsley said. “We are concerned that if she is injured or scared that she is holed up in
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a bush.”
Neighbors spent the weekend posting fliers with the dog’s picture. Some of the rescue crews stayed out as late as 5 a.m. looking for the dog, which stands about 10 to 12 inches tall and weighs 25 pounds.
Animal control has also been looking for Bella. The pit bull’s fate was unclear on Sunday night. The Belsleys said they were told the dog had been destroyed. The dog’s owner did not return Mercury News calls on Sunday.
“The neighborhood has come out in droves,” said nearby resident Sharon Freitas. “To Terri, it’s like she’s missing a child.”
Contact Joshua Molina at jmolina@mercurynews.com or (408) 275-2002
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I’m not so concerned about the pit bull as I am about the owner. What the hell is someone who carelessly let their dog run loose doing… loose? Why aren’t these people arrested as accessories to manslaughter or assault with a deadly weapon? In a different reality, the pit bull could have been responsibly contained and Bella would be at home. Until society starts treating irresponsible owners like the menace they are, they will continue behaving irresponsibly towards their dogs.
I hope Bella is reunited quickly with her family.
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